House Speaker John Boehner, in advance of President Obama's State of the Union address, said Tuesday that he doesn't think the president "has the guts" to seriously address the country's debt and deficit.

The speaker aired his concerns during a breakfast outside his office on Capitol Hill with anchors and reporters covering Obama's address Tuesday night.

He said he's pessimistic about the odds the president will tackle the country's long-term spending problem, which he sees as the biggest threat to America's future.

"I don't think he has the guts to do it. He doesn't have the courage to take on the liberal side of his own party -- never has," Boehner said.

Obama has urged Congress to craft a short-term bridge bill to avert the cuts if lawmakers cannot come up with a long-term plan in the next few weeks. But asked Tuesday about Congress voting again to delay the date the sequester kicks in, Boehner said, "We're not moving it."

Boehner insisted that whatever package comes forward, it must not have new taxes in it.

Nice try, but Obama IS the left side of his party. And why would he even think about reeling in spending when the true purpose of his fiscal irresponsibility is forcing his true goal, good old Marxist income redistribution.

Those 2 sissys are just spitting at each other for show, the 0ne has already got everyone from Soros to the Media lined up to fight for him... by the weekend they will be hitting the links together again

TT

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posted on 02/12/2013 12:52:15 PM PST
by TexasTransplant
(Live every day as your last...one day you will be right.)

Obama very much has the guts. And if it comes time to starve his constituents out, he'll do it in a second. Currently, he still needs those unwashed low info, government teet suckers to continue the destruction.

If Boehner "got it" or had the guts to be honest, he'd say that Obama doesn't have the desire to tackle deficit.

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posted on 02/12/2013 1:03:02 PM PST
by riri
(Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)

obozo fixing anything that is wrong in the US is contrary to the NWO movement as well as his own agenda. Clearly the elected officials in DC (house and senate) are all on board with the NWO. I say that because if they wanted a productive society in the US, we would have one. The DC good cop - bad cop game no longer works, they are all bad. Well, the few good ones are so few that they just don't count.

Obama lacks the competence to do most things presidential. Financial matters are beyond him. He cannot remember numbers. He gets tongue-tied trying to explain anything without using the TOTUS.

He does not know how to reach out in a bi-partisan manner. Instead he insults. It's time for a change. Stop Obama and the democrats before the US is ruined beyond repair - Obama is incompetent to correct the ECONOMIC DEPRESSION the country is in.

The answer is obvious - you cannot get out of debt by borrowing more and more no matter how you invest it or donate it to the unions. Borrowing puts you deeper in debt.

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posted on 02/12/2013 1:08:21 PM PST
by Rapscallion
(Homeland Security is buying millions of bullets - for you. So you can't buy ammo at all.)

It’s congress’s job to manage the finances and the check-book. It’s congress’s job to reign in idiot presidents, and they DO exist.

Congress isn’t doing ITs job. I blame ALL of congress, both houses, for the mess we are in. They allowed it. They pretty much tossed their power, and authority into the trash. They forgot who voted them in. They forgot that they can override Presidential veto’s. They, more than anybody, have the ability to pull this nation out of the mess it’s in. And they aren’t doing it.

Instead, they sit as servants to a tyrant, quaking in their balless pants at the thought of growing a pair.

He doesn't have the courage to take on the liberal side of his own party -- never has," Boehner said.

How can Boehner be so Bonehead? He is utterly clueless. A real house leader would be able to read the tea leaves of Ø's true intent from looking, for example, at appointees like Hagel, SCOTUS, NLRB and on and on. Look at his support first for O'Dinga, then Zelaya of Honduras, PA, Iran, Mudslim Brudderhood, and on and on. Ø *****IS***** the Marxist side of the relatively one-sided 'Rat party. Period!.

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posted on 02/12/2013 2:24:44 PM PST
by C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)

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